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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 283, 30 November 1874, Page 4

It is in contemplation to establish a manure manufactory at the Whan, Auckland. Ten pence in the pound is the education rate levied in the East Christchurch district this year. Several of the recent new arrivals have left their wives and children to the mercy of the benevolent io Duoedio. The first attempt of extensively cultivating hops in Canterbury is being made this year, by Mr W. Wilson, of Cbristchurcb. The Wesleyans of Canterbury propose to expend £2,500, during next year, on church buildings at Timaru, Leeßton and Eyreton. The members of the Foresters' Order rose from 65,909 in 1845 to 446,888 in 1873. The present price of both fat and store cattle is very high in (his district, says the fVairarapa Standard. As much as 35a. per hundred has been offered for prime fat cattle, and there is a good demand for store cattle. One or two buyers from ISapier are endeavoring to purchase the latter. One wants as many as 2000 bead. Gold, it appears, is known to the aboriginals of Central Australia by the name of Lamarra. Some of the natives near Tencant Creek station on the telegraph line were lately shown a sovereign, and on seeing it named the mineral, and pointing to the westward made signs that there was plenty of it to be had there. The locality, however, is reported as being arid, water being very scarce. The Kyneton Observer states that a magnificent selection of prize stock passed through Kyoetoa a few days since, en rw(e to Melboarne, for exhibition at the National Agricultural Society's Show. They were the property of Mr Morton, of the Montpel I ier Estate, near Kyueton, and comprised eight head of the finest cattle which could possibly be got together io Australia. One of the bulls Mr Morton values at £2000, the brother of which, as a two-year-old, brought in Sydney last year the handsome value of £1100. Two cows are valued at £1000 each, and the aggregate value of the herd is £7000. Dr. Bice, the Coroner of San Francisco, it at present a prisoner on bail, charged with robbing the unfortunates upon whom he has been holding bis quest. Money und valuable effects have been disappearing for a long time past, but a handsome carriage robe, the property of a deceased son of Esculapius, has lately been found io the coroner's possession, and now a long list of charges are being prepared against him. Bismarck was recently called upon by a Russian lady, who asked him for bis autograph. After the Chancellor had complied with her request she said to him : "Prince, may 1 ask your photograph for a noble purpose?" "Certainly," he replied, "but what is it?" lt My brother has been exiled to Siberia, let me write an application for his pardon over your name aod the Czar will grant it." Bismarck consented, and Alexander II informed him when at Berlin recently, that the pardon had been granted.